Jim Hodges Quotes

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

The most important thing in life is to know where you come from, and I know where I come from.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

People like to trace their ancestry.